Yann Martel: 'Jewish people don't own the Holocaust' | My Best Books

Talking about the Holocaust at nine in the morning in the elegant lounge of a trendy boutique hotel in central London is not ideal. A woman packs up and moves to the other side of the room at Yann Martel's first mention of genocide. ... The inescapable fact about the book, Martel's long-awaited follow-up to Life of Pi, is that it has not been very well received. In the US the reviews were what one politely calls “mixed”; in the UK they have been uniformly hostile. ...